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North Atlanta High will be the focus of an upcoming Atlanta Public Schools report about allegations of grade changing and institutional racism at the school, Board of Education Chairman Reuben McDaniel confirmed July 23. The report, whatever its findings, is likely to reopen wounds from leadership changes at the school that occurred last October. At the time, APS leaders said the changes were about academic performance. Later it was revealed that McDaniel made several inquiries about the treatment of minority students at the school. McDaniel, who has drawn four challengers for his at-large seat on the BOE in the November school board election, said APS internal auditors will release the report within the next six weeks. McDaniel attributes the number of challengers in the school board race to “misinformation” about his role in the leadership changes at North Atlanta. So far his chal-
The new school year is bringing big changes for three Atlanta public schools in the Buckhead community. The school year begins Aug. 7. North Atlanta High will move to its new campus at Northside Parkway, more than 3.6 miles north of its old campus on Northside Drive. Sutton Middle School will move to the old North Atlanta High campus, located 3.6 miles south of Sutton’s current campus on Powers Ferry Road at Chastain Park. E. Rivers Elementary will move to the Sutton Campus, located 4.3 miles north of its present location at Peachtree Battle Avenue. E. Rivers’ move is only temporary. Atlanta Public Schools will rebuild the elementary school. District 4 Atlanta Board of Education Member Nancy Meister said that school is tentatively scheduled to open in January 2015.
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The debate over the recently approved Sandy Springs Gateway project likely will repeat itself in the coming years as more developers build apartments in metro Atlanta. Apartments are on the rise as more people opt to rent instead of buy. With apartments come increased traffic, and that means road improvements. Road improvements cost money. When the Sandy Springs City Council approved the Gateway project at its July 16 meeting, it also approved spending $3.7 million to realign the adjacent intersection of Roswell Road and Windsor Parkway. Developer JLB Partners will offset much of the cost by paying the city impact fees. It’ll be a different story at the intersection of Roswell and West Wieuca roads in the Buckhead community, just south of the project. District 8 Atlanta City Councilwoman Yolanda Adrean said without a dedicated funding source, the city will have to get creative. “I don’t know how we can allow lefthand turns into that development because there’s no way for traffic to queue up,” Adrean said. “It seems to me the driveway is going to have to be a right in, right out.” In addition to the Gateway project, on July 16 the Sandy Springs City Council also approved a project at 6558 Roswell Road, a redevelopment of a 259-unit apartment complex by Cortland Development. City Councilman Gabriel Sterling said the projects are a sign of an economy on the mend. “The economy has turned around to a point where we can actually get some of this done,” Sterling said. “We had a sea change in 2007 and 2008. You saw credit markets lock up. No deals were moving on anything.” New apartments on the city’s main roads are going to increase, Sterling said. “In a perfect world, you’d replace these with single-family homes,” Sterling said. “The economics of that is simply not a reBH
ality, especially along Roswell Road.” Adrean said it’s also a sign that traffic problems in Atlanta are likely to get worse before they get better. “As we become denser and lack the transportation infrastructure to support the density, we’re just going to increase gridlock,” Adrean said. In 2013, Sandy Springs issued four building permits for three apartment projects: Perimeter Town Center Apartments, Sandy Springs Mansions Apartments and Hammond Center Apartments. The city issued no multifamily permits in 2012. Atlanta classifies its permits differently than Sandy Springs, and includes townhomes. Atlanta issued 72 permits for apartments and townhomes in 2012, and 83 so far in 2013. Sandy Springs classifies townhomes as “single family attached.” In 2012, Sandy Springs issued 113 permits for townhomes, and has issued 61 so far in 2013. The recently-approved Gateway project will demolish dilapidated apartments currently on site, Chastain and Versailles, and replace them with apartments targeted at tenants who can pay higher rents. The project will consist of 630 apartment units, reduced from 700 the developers initially proposed. The development will also include office and retail space. Sandy Springs City Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny said the city needs to put in place policies that will restrict the number of new apartments being developed. McEnerny was the one “no” vote against the Gateway and Cortland projects. “I think we need to develop a policy that limits the amount of density in a number of bedrooms that can be built on these old apartments or we will continue to increase substantially the apartment count in Sandy Springs,” McEnerny said. “That’s very concerning to me because of the growing imbalance in the number of owner-occupied to rental.”
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The Gateway Connector Project will enhance “the aesthetics” of the Peachtree Street bridge over I-85 on the Downtown Connector as well as one south of the Emory University Hospital Midtown complex.
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Work is to begin early next year on a project to dress up the Peachtree Street bridge over I-85 that connects Buckhead to Midtown. The Gateway Connector Project will “enhance the aesthetics” of the bridge across the Downtown Connector, according to Midtown Alliance CEO Kevin Green. The bridge, located at Brookwood Station, and a second bridge just south of the Emory University Hospital Midtown complex, will both feature “monumental arches” and bold, up-lit decorative lettering, Green said. Bridge enhancements will also create bike lanes, widen the sidewalks and installplanted medians. “We are in the concept phase now,
but will have final design and construction documents by the end of the year,” Green said, noting that Georgia Department of Transportation and NorfolkSouthern approval would also be needed since the bridges cross the I-75/85 Connector and railroad tracks. Green said construction would begin early next year and take about a year to complete. He estimated the total cost would reach $5.3 million for both bridges. The decorative bridge arches will reach 30 feet at the top curve and will be made from structural steel, Green said. “Pedestrians using the sidewalks will actually be walking through the archways, which act as a barrier to motor traffic.”
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Parents who want a charter school in Buckhead think they have a shot at changing School Superintendent Erroll Davis’ mind on the subject. In a letter emailed on July 12, Atlanta Classical Academy Chairman Matthew Kirby said a vote on the school will be rescheduled for August. The vote had been scheduled for July 1. “On July 1,…with the help of APS board members and administrators, we encouraged the superintendent to pull his ‘no’ recommendation (and the board’s vote) from the APS board meeting agenda. In effect, we have been granted an opportunity to get to ‘yes,’” Kirby wrote in an email to supporters. “Your ACA Launch Team continues to work toward the next regular APS board meeting which is August 12. We think we can get an approval! What has gotten us this far is a world-class plan and community support.” An APS spokeswoman said on July
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Residential towers proposed for Piedmont and Lenox By Chuck Stanley A Florida-based developer has moved closer to approval for two residential towers in Buckhead after gaining support from Atlanta’s Zoning Review Board at the body’s July 11 meeting. Despite concerns that the project might bring increased traffic to the busy intersection of Piedmont and Lenox roads, the board voted unanimously in support of a zoning change that would allow mixed-use development at the site, and bring the land into Buckhead’s Special Public Improvement 12 district. The developer, Crocker Partners, obtained the 6.5-acre parcel when it purchased the Prominence in Buckhead office tower from TIAA-CREF, Equity Office, and the Blackstone Group in August 2012. A second office tower was approved for construction on the site at the same time as Prominence, but was never developed. Now, Crocker plans to build a pair of towers, standing 26 and 19 stories high, that would contain a total of 703 residential units. “We’re excited about this project,” Crocker Partners’ Christopher Eachus told ZRB members. “We acquired the site a little less than a year ago with the intention to rezone the land with the intention of going with multifamily development.” Lawyer Carl Westmoreland, who represents Crocker Partners, told the board that Buckhead CID and NPU-B had asked the developer to request SPI12 zoning in order to permit possible future streetscape improvements and incorporation of the land into PATH400, the proposed trail along Ga. 400. NPUB voted in support of the project at its June 4 board meeting. Despite the NPU’s support, residents of the Meridian Buckhead condo tower, which stands on the opposite side of Lenox Road from the proposed project, are concerned about increased traffic related to the project, especially at the Lenox Road intersection where the res-
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idential towers’ entrances would meet. “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that taking a piece of vacant dirt and turning it into 703 units is going to change traffic patterns there,” Kyle Williams, attorney for One Buckhead Loop Condominium Association, told the ZRB. “Mr. Westmoreland and Mr. Eachus have been very generous and very transparent, and very cooperative and have answered our questions,” added Williams. However, this transparency did not change Meridian homeowners’ concerns over traffic at the development’s Lenox Road and Piedmont entrances. “[The intersections are] already at a failing score. Based on their levels of service, they’re at a D or E out of a scale of A to F, and this is just going to make it worse,” Williams said of the project. “Is there something that this development can do to make transportation easier and do something to alleviate it?” In response, Westmoreland reminded the board that the site was already approved for more than 400,000 square feet of office space. The project should go before the Atlanta City Council Community Development Committee July 30.
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moved on from the events of last fall. North Atlanta Parents for Public Schools co-president Reide Onley said parents knew that school officials were interviewing teachers and students, but said he didn’t have any idea what investigators would find or didn’t find. “There’s concern, because it’s still an unknown,” Onley said. Andrea Shelton, a North Atlanta High parent and a member of the Local School Council, said she and other parents aren’t concerned “because those who are investigating are not in our schools every day, and they have an agenda. When you’re investigating, you’re looking for something.” District 4 Board of Education Member Nancy Meister said she didn’t know when the report would be released or what the investigators may have found. “North Atlanta has moved on,” Meister said. “We have a whole new leadership team. We have more families than ever going to the school. Everybody has moved on. If the investigation comes back, at that point and time we’ll address it. It is understandable that the administrators and teachers that were personally hurt will take much longer to heal and get past this.”
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lengers are Tom Tidwell, Cynthia Briscoe Brown, Mark Riley and Dave Walker. McDaniel said the report is independent of the school board. “Once they have a finding, whether it’s a negative or positive, it becomes public, and all the documentation and all that will be public,” McDaniel said. When the investigation of alleged grade changing was initially disclosed by APS officials last fall, there were few clues as to what kinds of grade changing investigators might be reviewing. It was also unclear if those grade-changing allegations were related to claims of institutional racism, the subject of a separate investigation. The institutional racism claims appear related to complaints some parents had about North Atlanta’s International Baccalaureate program. Emails revealed that McDaniel had requested information about the race of students pursuing International Baccalaureate diplomas through the school. Some in the North Atlanta community were guarded about the news of the upcoming report. North Atlanta High will move to its new campus at the beginning of this school year, Aug. 7, and many in the community say they have
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What is the proper role of an accreditor? E-mail letters to In the Buckhead Reporters’ July 12-25 editions, we heard editor@reporternewspapers.net from Mark Elgart, the CEO of AdvancED, parent company of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) about the “proper role of a board member.” With the power and influence that AdvancED wields in measurements of academic rigor and success. Georgia why is it that our state is permanently parked at or Many states accredit their own K-12 schools based on obnear last place in student achievement? This is especially troujective criteria. Virginia’s state Department of Education has a bling because our spending on education remains in the Top page with listings of their accreditation standards and the ac10 in the nation. creditation status of all schools in the state. What is being accredited and what does it mean? What is Recently Virginia’s DOE revoked the accreditation of the proper role of an accreditor? a high school in Manassas because their achievement levels AdvancED/SACS has a great deal of power in our state. failed to reach the state’s standards. In an interesting twist, There are even laws linking the HOPE scholarship to graduatafter losing state accreditation, the high school community ing from a SACS or GAC accredited school. contracted with AdvancED/SACS in an effort to buy their Ironically, there is no law that requires a school or district accreditation product. AdvancED/SACS found them highly to be accredited at all. Most people seem to believe that acfunctional and granted accreditation to the school. creditation means something about the quality of the acaOur state Department of Education does not accreddemic product within the schools and some it schools. I haven’t been able to find a listminimum standard for results. ing of schools that are accredited by SACS Unfortunately, this commonly held beor GAC anywhere on the state DOE weblief is wrong. SACS “accredits” schools and site. Do they keep one? It makes me wonder districts based on “standards” and “indicahow they would officially know if there is a SACS ‘accredits’ tors,” none of which require rigorous inchange in the accreditation status of a school schools and districts struction or basic proficiency for students. or district. based on ‘standards’ SACS’ accreditation methods were critiSo our state doesn’t require a school or disand ‘indicators,’ none of trict to be accredited, but links accreditation cized by a former U.S. Senator from Colorado, Hank Brown, in a Wall Street Journal by a private agency to receiving the HOPE which require rigorous article earlier this year. Brown decried the scholarship and then doesn’t even keep a pubinstruction or basic lack of objective measurements by SACS, as lic list of these schools. This doesn’t even beproficiency for students. gin to address the fact that HOPE is a merwell as their bullying tactics used to protect college administrators. He’s seen this first it-based scholarship and accreditation is not hand. In addition to being a former senabased on any objective measures of student tor, he was also the president of the Univerachievement and/or academic rigor. sity of Colorado. There is a wide gap between what the public generally beThe American Council for Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) lieves accreditation means and what is really going on. It aphas also illuminated the shortcomings of the accreditation propears that our legislators and DOE officials may also suffer cess and the political agendas that play out with AdvancED/ from this confusion. Shouldn’t the proper role of accreditaSACS. ACTA has filed an official complaint with the U.S. tion be to convey an objective assessment on the quality and Department of Education regarding accreditation as currently outcomes of a school? practiced by our regional accreditor. Our state should quit abdicating this role to a private agenIn his article, Sen. Brown pointed out that regional accredcy and, as many other states do, accredit our own schools itors have threatened removal of accreditation based on salabased on concrete, objective standards and achievement data. ry and benefit cuts to administrators. ACTA points out that It is clear that the recent declination of Georgia’s academmany universities with six-year graduation rates below 50 peric standing has come in tandem with the growth and power of cent are fully accredited while The University of Virginia, AdvancED/SACS. It’s time that we join with other states and known for the quality of its product and students, was sancinformed leaders to restore the proper value to accreditation. tioned for governance issues. Our taxpayers and parents deserve real quality assurance These critiques and others emphasize that accreditation is and our children’s futures can only be built on these honest meant to be a designation of quality assurance but has strayed assessments. from this responsibility. ACTA calls for a reformation of the accreditation process so that Americans can rely on objective Rick Callihan
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Read these articles from our other editions online at ReporterNewspapers.net. “Moratoriums are not ideal, but I think it makes sense at this point. It will not stop any development from occurring, but will delay it until after the new ordinance. When we started this, and laid out the timeline, the market was dormant. There is a beehive of activity now, a lot of it in the Perimeter area.” –Dunwoody City Manager Warren Hutmacher, recommending Dunwoody City Council adopt a moratorium on accepting rezoning requests while the council considers a rewrite to the city’s zoning and building codes. The council imposed a 90-day moratorium.
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“The building doesn’t make students, the teachers do, and that shows because Chamblee [High] has had such high grades in the facilities they’re in. Now they’re going to have a state-ofthe-art facility they’ll use for next 50 years.” –David Tench, chair of the Construction Progress Advisory Committee for Chamblee High School’s governance council, on the near completion of a $70 million renovation of Chamblee Charter High School. The new building is scheduled to open in December. BH
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Builders, buyers running out of roofs By Dan Whisenhunt There’s a sharp increase in the amount of homebuilders applying for construction permits, data from Perimeter area cities and Buckhead show. Builders are responding to a growing need for inventory in a market that’s become increasingly competitive. They’re finding that keeping up with the demand isn’t as easy as it was five years ago. “This is exactly the kind of problem I want to deal with,” Dunwoody homebuilder Bill Grant said. The number of single family home permits issued for the first six months of 2013 are striking compared with 2012 figures. Sandy Springs reported the best numbers for 2012, with 158 permits issued. So far this year the city has issued 66. Buckhead has shown the most dramatic improvement. In 2012 there were 29 permits issued. So far this year, there have been 60. “The new construction market is on fire right now,” said Randy Glazer, owner of Glazer Design and Construction. “In the last four months every single one of my projects went under contract, before they were even built, and I’m seeing the same thing from all my friends that are builders.” While the lack of homes on the market is keeping builders busy, the lack of inventory is creating problems for buyers. Patricia Sklar and her husband have been looking for a home in Buckhead or Brookhaven, but so far haven’t had any luck. Homes she’s liked go off the market almost as soon as they get there. Sklar said she came close to buying one home, but the deal fell apart when she discovered the home needed $100,000 worth of repairs. “We haven’t been able to buy anything because we’ve Continued on page 10
Q & A: Perimeter retailers - Page 8 Matt Hagan, Regency Centers’ senior leasing agent, says a burgeoning daytime population, combined with wealthy residents, is a recipe for success for Perimeter area businesses.
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Retail, in its purest form, revolves around retailer sales. If retailers perform well in mixeduse developments, then that will drive demand and rents for these types of developments, and developers will consequently follow suit. Besides some obvious management and coordination challenges when mixing residential with commercial uses, traditional retailers often shy away from mixed-use properties, as many retailers pose concerns about parking, access and visibility, which ultimately affects their ability to generate revenue. A more desirable approach may be a “multi-use” format, rather than mixed-use, where office, retail and residential uses co-exist nearby each other, but are located on separate properties. You get most of the benefits of “live-workplay” without as much pushback from retailers.
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Perimeter Business taurants and service businesses. Why? Because you cannot purchase services and a restaurant experience online. And many traditional, product-based retailers are starting to utilize their brick-andmortar locations as showrooms to complement their online presence along with point-of-sale revenues. We’ve also seen an uptick in interest from medical tenants, and we expect that trend to continue. Aging Baby Boomers will need more medical services in the coming years, and many medical users see the marketing benefit of having a retail presence.
Hagan has worked at Regency Centers, a real estate investment trust focusing on Class A shopping centers, for almost seven years, where he’s managed over 350 transactions. Hagan graduated from the College of Charleston, earned a MBA from the University of Florida and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
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Several key trends have impacted our centers, particularly in Dunwoody. With the proliferation of Internet retail, there will be a heightened focus on res-
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It’s not particularly glamorous work signing agreements, As substate legislators head back to the Gold Dome in 2013, they mitting plans and conducting studies for a planned trail, Livable have a lot to think about. Buckhead Executive Director Denise Starling said. One local issue the state’s lawmakers may be asked to confront But Starling and other backers of a planned 5-mile trail is thealong controversy surrounding DeKalb County’s school board. Ga. 400 knew it would take time. That patience and attention to was recently placed on accreditation probation by AdThe system detail may also be gaining them some support from neighbors liv-the accrediting agency. vancED, ing alongside the project. The path will connect pedestrians, Sen.cyFran Millar (R-Dunwoody), who chairs the Senate Edclists, skaters, Buckhead’s businesses, parks and schools ucation to the AtCommittee, said at a recent forum that DeKalb County lanta BeltLine. schools are his No. 1 priority. Starling said planners presented pub“I’m guardedly optimistic we can turn this thing around,” MilScan here30topercent get drawings to the lic in October and November, that give an idea what lar of said. Reporterrenderings Newspapers the finished product will look like. A Jan. 17 hearing of the Georgia Board of Education is schedin your inbox The public’s response? Soorfar, so up good, uled to consider suspending the DeKalb school board members. If sign @ she said. ReporterNewspapers.net SEE LEGISLATORS, PAGE 34 See LiVeaBLe, page 35
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Perimeter Business Chambers, local officials welcome new businesses New businesses offering everything from driving lessons to haircuts Op ening s are starting up in the Perimeter, one of the largest commercial areas in metro Atlanta. Here’s a sampling of recent ribbon cutwoody
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Special Taggart’s Driving School, located at 5529 ChambleeDunwoody Road, Suite 260, noted its newest location with a ribbon cutting on July 10. From left, Sarah Breffle, Caitlin Stoll, Zane Cowman, Owen Blank, Eileen Brewster, Councilman Denny Shortal, Berry Schrenk, Taggart’s president, Juan Diego, Ashley Nalley, Taggart’s vice president, Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce member Glen Fuse, Councilman Terry Nall, Bob Dallas, Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce member Bill Mulcahy, Ken Manous, Tanya Kirwan, Erika Henry and Ed Platenburg. Special V’s Barbershop recently opened its doors and celebrated with a ribbon cutting. Owner Lance Jordan, third from left with scissors, and Sandy Springs Councilwoman Dianne Fries, third from right, are surrounded by his family, staff and friends, and representatives from the Sandy Springs/ Perimeter Chamber of Commerce. Located at 5975 Roswell Road, Suite E-357, the barbershop offers shaves, haircuts and shoeshines.
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Sunday, August 4, 7 p.m. – Concerts by the Springs continues with The Mustangs, a six-piece group who covers popular tunes from the past 40 years. Free; outdoor concert is open to the public. No pets, no smoking. Picnic baskets, coolers and blankets are welcome. Additional food and beverages available for purchase. Heritage Green, on the Sandy Springs Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions? Visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org, call 404-851-9111, ext. 4 or email: information@heritagesandysprings.org.
Folk Music Thursday, August 8, 6:30 p.m. – Kathy Reed, a native of Georgia, with roots in east Tennessee, presents “Folk Music and Folk Tunes.” Reed is a singer/songwriter, and plays bass and guitar. She and her band have opened for many performers, including Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, Claire Lynch and Patty Loveless. Free and open to the public. Heritage Sandy Springs Museum, 6075 Sandy Springs Road, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information call 404-8519111, email: kbrigance@heritagesandysprings.org or go to: www.heritagesandysprings.org.
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Blood Drive Wednesday, July 31, 11 a.m. – Northside Hospital hosts a community blood drive. All donors receive a free T-shirt and free parking. As long as you are healthy, weigh at least 110 pounds, and are 17 years or older, you can give blood every 56 days. Northside Hospital Doctors’ Centre, Ground Floor, Classroom B, 980 Johnson Ferry Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30342. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Mandy Snavely at 404-851-6561 or email: mandy.snavely@northside.com.
Grill & Grub 5K Saturday, August 3, 10:30 a.m. – The Grill & Grub 5K gets under way! Run or walk the streets of Buckhead, starting and finishing at Frankie Allen Park. Participants enjoy food trucks, merchant expo, music, t-shirt, a pig nose to wear while you run, and an eating contest. $ 35; $20 for children 2-12. Stroller and dog friendly. Race raises money and awareness to benefit Project Open Hand. Canned food donations welcome. Registration ends August 2; no same day registration. Race begins and ends at Frankie Allen Park, 445 Pharr Rd., Atlanta, 30305. For more details or to register, visit: www.active.com or http://grillandgrub5k.com.
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ers for the 2nd annual “National Night Out,” and build a stronger, safer community. Check out First Responders and their vehicles, and enjoy a picnic, snow cones, popcorn and an appearance by the Fire Clown. Additional activities include sack races, tugo-war, face painting, a waterslide and inflatables. Free and open to everyone. Hammond Park, corner of Hammond and Glenridge Drives, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 770-551-3328 or email: ljacobs@sandyspringsga.gov with questions.
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Ancient Civilizations Thursday, August 1, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.–
Become an archaeology detective and dig for clues that lead to understanding the civilizations of ancient Egypt, China, Africa and Greece in four educational films. Free and open to the public. Appropriate for children ages 5-12. Groups of 10 or more must register. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: comments@co.fulton. ga.us or call 404-814-3500 to find out more.
Teen Boss Thursday, August 1, 1-3 p.m. – Workshop
teaches young people how to start their own business, setting them on the road to entrepreneurship, self-confidence and money. Learn about pricing, profits, customer service skills, marketing, licenses and taxes. Understand the importance of math, and how technology is crucial toward success. Free and open to the community. For ages 12-18. Registration required by calling 404-814-3500 or emailing: ouida.mccarther@fultoncountyga.gov. Buckhead Branch Library, in the large Meeting Room, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305.
Tuesday, July 30, 10:30-11:30 a.m. – Bill Packard digs
into his bag of tricks, puppets, music, storytelling, video projection, and lots of books to inspire children to read. Free, and the public is welcome to attend. For all audiences. Sandy Springs Branch Library, in the Meeting Room, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Email: leah.germon@fultoncountyga.gov or call 404-303-6130 for information.
Dinosaur Puppets Wednesday, July 31, 4-4:45 p.m. – Join “Dr. Dinosaur” on this exciting expedition of prehistoric proportions! Presented by Lee Bryan, “That Puppet Guy.” Free and open to all. Suggested audiences: preschool and elementary school youth. Northside Branch Library, 3295 Northside Parkway, NW, Atlanta, 30327. Email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us or call 770-992-2055 for details.
teen who’s interested in becoming a forensic scientist? The Georgia State Bio-Technology Department hosts a forensic science program. Learn about fingerprinting, blood typing and other techniques used by forensic scientists. Geared for middle and high school youth. Free; all are welcome. Registration is required by calling 404-814-3500 or emailing: ouida.mccarther@fultoncountyga.gov. Buckhead Branch Library, in the large Meeting Room, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305.
Beautiful Biomes Saturday, August 3, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. – Have
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Knitting Workshop Saturday, August 3, 3-6 p.m. – Beginners
are invited to a free knitting workshop. Representatives from the Atlanta Knitting Guild will be available to teach and offer advice on knitting. Bring size 8 or 9 bamboo or wood needles, and worsted or medium weight yarn (light colors, no black). For adults. Open to the public. Registration is required by calling 404-303-6130. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us for additional details.
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area will be dead,” the study reads. City officials said they have listened to dog park users and have come up with a plan for a new dog area in a different part of the park. The new design calls for 1/4 of an acre to 1/3 of an acre for a small dog play area. The main dog park will be divided into two areas, which will be alternated every three to four months to allow the land in one area to rest while the other is in use. “The overall acreage in the boundaries of the new dog park will be similar in size to the existing dog park, however the new design incorporates a “small dog” park area and a “large dog” park area, and also allows for areas to be closed for recovery and maintenance,” Mullen said. Dog park users say the shade at the current location is a large part of its appeal and something they feel simply cannot be replaced. “The best part of the dog park is the trees,” said Samantha Suggs, another regular visitor. “I’d say it’s an easy 10-degree difference, and just makes it so much nicer for the dogs on those summer days.” Sweezey said she doesn’t think the dog parks’ opponents have taken the time to look at all the positive things the park brings to Dunwoody. Sweezey said the Brook Run Dog Park has repeatedly been named by publications such as Atlanta Magazine as the best dog park in the city. She worries that by moving the dog park, Dunwoody is squandering one of its greatest assets. “It gives a really positive image to Dunwoody. People now know where Dunwoody is because it’s the city that has the best dog park,” Sweezey said. The Brook Run Dog Park Association holds monthly clean-up days, she said. Sweezey updates a Facebook page for the dog park and sends out newsletters. Recently, volunteers from the dog park collected 200 pounds of dog food to donate to an animal shelter that was running low on supplies, Sweezey said. “It truly is a community. It’s a cliché, but it really is,” Sweezey said. “The bonds that have occurred out there over the years are phenomenal.”
Sweezey visits the park every day with her dog, Bama. On a recent afternoon, she walked around with a few plastic bags in her pocket, stopping every so often to pick up dog waste. She greeted a woman and her daughter, walking their new puppy through the park, and gave them her business card. She told them to call her if they had any questions about the dog park or wanted advice on puppy-rearing. Before long, two German Shepherds came running into the park and Sweezey greeted them enthusiastically. “At any given time I can usually name most of the dogs in the park,” Sweezey said. Suggs, the German Shepherds’ owner, said she’s met a lot of people at the dog park, including Sweezey, who now babysits Suggs’ dogs when she’s out of town. “People just come up and start talking to you. You have your dogs in common. It just opens up the conversation,” Suggs said. Lamont Robeson is another regular, who comes with his Shar Pei, Maserati, nearly every day. Robeson said before he adopted him, Maserati was abused, and it has taken a while for him to trust people again. “Everybody’s really nice,” he said. “This is a good place for him to be.” For some, the dog park is more significant than just a place to let their dogs run around. Gantt said her fiancé, Bryan Rosengrant, proposed to her at the dog park in March. “We’ve lived up the street from the park for about two years and we go to the park almost every day,” Gantt said. She said the dog park is a special place for the couple. They spend about an hour there each day sitting on the benches together as their dogs run around and play. But Gantt said she was “totally surprised” when on one of these evening visits to the dog park her boyfriend got down on one knee, and pulled a diamond ring out his pocket. “He wanted to make sure it was at the park so the whole family could be included, which I thought was adorable,” Gantt said.
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Police Blotter Reports dated through July 13. The following information was provided to the Buckhead Reporter by the Zone 2 precinct of the Atlanta Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate.
H o m i ci de 1900 block of Wellbourne Drive, NE – A homicide at an apartment was reported on July 6. Officers arrived to the unit and discovered a man lying on the floor. Upon further investigation, it was determined he had expired from a gunshot wound. The suspect was later apprehended without incident.
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1900 block of Howell Mill Road, NW – A pedestrian robbery was reported on July 10. A man and woman had just finished closing the bar and were walking to her car when two unknown men approached with guns and demanded the other man’s property. He gave up his wallet and cell phone, and when the woman started to walk away, the suspects yelled and demanded her car keys and iPhone 5.
700 block of 17th Street, NW – An aggravated assault was re 1900 block of ported on July 13. A woman and her male Piedmont Road, Read more of the friend were leav– A robbery at a NE Police Blotter online at ing a nightclub on hotel was reported www.reporternewspapers.net 10th Street when on July 11. A woman they were confrontsaid while letting a ed by the man’s girlguest out of her hofriend. The suspect reached into the vehitel room a stranger punched her and she went cle, and pushed and slapped the victim. The unconscious. When she awoke, money and a man rolled the window up and drove off, but safe were missing from the room. She had a they were followed by the suspect until they cut to her jaw but refused medical attention. stopped in the 700 block of 17th Street. When the man and woman got out of the vehicle to 3500 block of Peachtree Road, NE – A pedestalk to the suspect, the suspect struck the trian robbery was reported on July 11. A man victim in her face with a high-heeled shoe. and woman were walking to the woman’s vehiThe man grabbed the suspect off the victim cle when they were approached by an unknown and they drove away. The victim had a black man and woman. The male suspect pointed a left eye, bruising and discoloration below the gun and demanded everything in the victims’ right eye, and sore fingers. pockets -their wallets, chains and bracelets. The female suspect gathered the items and told the victims to run in the opposite direcRobbery tion. Both suspects entered the victims’ vehicle 2300 block of Cheshire Bridge Road, NE and drove off in an unknown direction. – A commercial robbery was reported on July 3. An unknown man entered the business and Burg lary forced his way behind the counter. He then produced a knife and threatened the clerk. 1400 block of Mecaslin Street, NW – A resThe suspect stole $900 cash from the regisidential burglary was reported on July 1. A ter and ran out. man walked into his apartment and found another man in there. The victim attempt 4000 block of Randle Mill Road, NW – A ed to lock the suspect in the apartment, but robbery at a residence was reported on July the suspect got away with the victim’s lap5. Three men entered the home through an top, iPad, digital camera and the keys to his unlocked door, held the housekeeper at gun 2007 Chevy.
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Andrea Sneiderman trial set to begin A year after she was arrested, Andrea Sneiderman faces trial in DeKalb County Superior Court on charges related to the November 2010 murder of her husband, Rusty Sneiderman. Andrea Sneiderman’s former boss, Hemy Neuman, was convicted of shooting Rusty Sneiderman in front of a Dunwoody day care center. During Neuman’s trial, his attorneys and the DeKalb County district attorney claimed Andrea Sneiderman was having an affair with Neuman, and had a hand in the crime. Sneiderman maintains that she is innocent and was never romantically involved with her husband’s killer. Sneiderman’s trial is scheduled to begin July 29. In the days leading up to the trial, media reports predicted the DeKalb district attorney would drop murder charges against Andrea Sneiderman. In that case, she could still stand trial on the lesser charges, such as perjury. • Nov. 18, 2010 – Rusty Sneiderman is fatally shot outside of his son’s preschool in Dunwoody. • Jan. 4, 2010 – Hemy Neuman is arrested. • March 15, 2012 – Hemy Neuman is found guilty but mentally ill; sentenced to life without parole. • Aug. 2, 2012 – Andrea Sneiderman is arrested. Later that day, she was indicted by a DeKalb County grand jury on eight counts, including murder, racketeering, perjury and fraud. • July 29, 2013 – Jury selection is schedule to begin in the trial of Andrea Sneiderman. --Melissa Weinman
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